21.   At the heart of the legal dispute are polar opposite stories about the agreement over the embryos McGill and Schmit entered into after their divorce.

22.   A General Services spokesman declined to comment on the Clingerman case, citing its general rule to remain silent in legal disputes.

23.   A long-brewing legal dispute about the limits of U.S. insider-trading laws will be settled by the Supreme Court.

24.   A lower court had ruled that Izumi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha should have pressed its claim during an earlier legal dispute.

25.   A verdict could also give the plaintiffs or the cigarette companies an advantage in negotiations to reach a global settlement of the legal disputes over tobacco.

26.   Adoption by single people or homosexuals also remains the subject of ongoing discussion and legal disputes.

27.   Adoption, while faster than before, still remains tangled in legal disputes between Czech authorities and their Slovak counterparts and is immensely difficult and expensive.

28.   After a lengthy legal dispute, the courts restored ownership of the bones to Williams, on whose behalf Sue is being auctioned off on Saturday.

29.   AirTouch Communications Inc. and Hutchinson Whampoa Ltd. each gave up bidding for mobile telephone operations in Brazil after legal disputes caused extended delays.

30.   Both sides in the legal dispute are claiming victory.